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Closing the circle
The creak of tightening screws that accompanies the installation of the last elements of ritual fittings on the lid of the coffin of political freedoms is increasingly evoking the idea that corruption is the last barrier on Russia's path to totalitarianism. Total mutual responsibility and the mafia management structure imply point show trials, but not mass purges.
The idea of personal enrichment and consumerism in the minds of the ruling elite are the only successful competitors of Orthodox fundamentalism, patriotic pan-Slavic monarchism and other totalitarian ideas and concepts of the world order.
As long as there is corruption, terrorist families can buy the bodies of the dead. As long as there is corruption, it is possible, with appropriate efforts, to be treated, study, live and work, give birth to children, and even die relatively peacefully.
But corruption is not a panacea. Even if corruption is applied with caution, choosing partners not only from among the neighbors in the garden partnership, the effect of side effects will not be slow to affect.
The corrupt official is always comfortable and positive. But not always effective. The goals of corrupt officials are usually at odds with the goals of the project or process in which they seek illegal sources of income. Corruption itself is a process and a project. Corruption is time: planning, meetings, control of the second bookkeeping, concealment of illegal income and their subsequent investment. Corruption is a real job with full-time employment, deadlines, bonuses, corporate parties and rare days off. Corruption is business. With all the attributes inherent in business. „
Corruption is a real job with full-time employment, deadlines, bonuses, corporate parties and rare days off
” A corrupt official, like any businessman, invests time, experience, connections and strength in what is beneficial and useful to him. It is profitable to catch terrorists. Gasification of villages is profitable. Paving sidewalks is profitable. Conducting exercises to prepare for emergency situations, checking the warning system - apparently, as Krymsk showed, it is unprofitable. When the mayor should take care of the common good, if it is necessary to have time to develop gold-bearing asphalt veins, distribute land allotments, and establish horizontal ties with corrupt officials in neighboring regions. But the main danger of corruption is not in our vulnerability to natural disasters and man-made disasters. After the abolition of class privileges and the failure of the attempt to build a classless society, we have formed two classes. Those who corrupt, and those who cannot or do not want to do so. Society split along the line of "cutting". Corruption is both the cornerstone of the current state structure and the time bomb that will blow up the system.
Once upon a time, monstrous corruption in the tsarist army actually disarmed the Russian fleet in front of Tsushima. The lost Russo-Japanese War turned into the first Russian revolution. Rockets do not always take off today, but most likely we are threatened not by a military conflict, but by the notorious economic crisis. The rehearsal has already taken place. They say that in 2008, in the state monopoly and all kinds of RAO, special and quite specific people came to retired generals in bureaucratic offices under a sanction from above and inspired: “Bro, good, what are you doing ?! Reduce the burden on the ruble ... ”They haven’t reduced it yet.
If the revolution (God forbid) is destined to happen, the cause may not even be the economic crisis itself, but the stupidity of thieving state managers who will not be able to moderate their corruption appetites in time and take up their immediate duties. Meanwhile, the counter is ticking - the average rollback percentage is constantly growing.